The Council of Dalmatia, in the Year 1199.
TWo Legates of Pope Innocent III. in Dalmatia, one of whom nam'd John, being only a Chaplain, * 1.1 and the other call'd Simon a Sub-deacon, made Twelve Orders for the Clergy of that Kingdom, wherein they prohibited Simony, renew'd the Law of the Celibacy of Ecclesiasticks, fix'd the Times of Ordinations and the Intervals betwixt them, approv'd of the Ancient dividing of the Church-Re∣venues into four Parts, enjoyn'd the Secrecy of Confession, provided for the security of Ecclesia∣sticks by declaring those Excommunicated who abus'd them, and by prohibiting them from being carry'd before secular Judges; prohibited Marriages between Relations to the Fourth Degree; enjoyn'd Clerks to have the Clerical Tonsure; condemn'd the Laicks who collated Benefices, and those who re∣ceiv'd them from their Hands; excommunicated those who retain'd the Treasures of the Church, and such who left their Wives; prohibited Bastards from being admitted into Holy Orders, and for∣bad the Ordaining any one who was not full Thirty Years Old.